Uncirculated World Coins Glued Onto Cards

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MachinMachinMan Pillar of the Community Australia 1985 Posts	Posted 04/29/2023 11:33 pm Why? Report this Post to the Staff

westernsky Pillar of the Community United States 7618 Posts	Posted 04/29/2023 11:55 pm This was a very popular and cheap way to introduce "common" coins to the masses in the 1970's and bring in new collectors. Soaking the glued coins, paper and cardboard in acetone should get them separated and more inline with what we like to see in this day and age. Good luck! Report this Post to the Staff
Spence Moderator United States 34402 Posts	Posted 04/30/2023 12:02 am You can remove the glue, but you may find that the glue protected the surface from oxidizing and you then will have a splotchy bright region on the coin where the glue used to be. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push." -----Ghanaian proverb "The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed." -----King Adz Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21786 Posts	Posted 04/30/2023 12:50 am I usually don't bother with these, because the glues may contain sulfur, which can seriously affect the coins OK for very cheap World coins, but they are not my cup of tea. Report this Post to the Staff
Numister Pillar of the Community Singapore 631 Posts	Posted 04/30/2023 02:07 am Bought some older Vietnam coins like this before, learnt my lesson, avoid them whenever I see them glued now. Report this Post to the Staff
David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1610 Posts	Posted 05/01/2023 7:00 pm Quote: Bought some older Vietnam coins like this before, learnt my lesson, avoid them whenever I see them glued now. Been there, done that. The glue and aluminium does react and as others have said, often when the glue doesn't react, it has left a non-oxidised patch compared to the rest of the coin. I might still keep an eye out for carded coins that are a bit harder to get and are going cheap but otherwise I walk past such offerings these days. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16826 Posts	Posted 05/02/2023 09:51 am Since these two coins are from opposite sides of the world but seem to have the exact same glue/card backing, I would assume they were made together, by a local coin marketing company, back in the 1970s when these copins would have still been current and readily obtainable in Unc in bulk. I think the intent was that you were supposed to remove the coins from the cardboard immediately (that is, within a year of the glue being applied); if you did that, while the glue was still relatively fresh, the coin simply came off the glue. I recall buying a set of 20 small Unc world coins from a local coin dealer in Brisbane in the early 80s, and they came off the cardboard just fine. I still have them. So they only become a problem if whoever bought the coins decided to keep them in the cellophane-wrapped card for the next thirty years. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
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